Show 530 – Rock Generation

  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Ace Frehley, Baton Rouge, Black Sabbath, Crowne, Dokken, Eva Under Fire, Extreme, Faster Pussycat, Hardcore Superstar, Heavy Pettin, Ignescent, KISS, Lynch Mob, Metal Warrior, Papa Roach, Revilo, Scott Stapp, See This Through, Sister Sin, Skid Row, Solence, Steelheart, The Pretty Reckless, Warrant, Wildstreet, Y&T
  • New Heavy Pettin, Faster Pussycat, the Pretty Reckless, Ignescent, Solence, and Metal Warrior with Keri Kelli
  • Too dark for radio, too heavy to ignore
  • Female-fronted firepower meets Sabbath’s heaviest hymn
  • A Triple-Shot from the best friend Glam Metal has in the 2020s, the man single-handedly making it possible for today’s hardest working non-A-list rockers to finally make their nut
  • The Metal masterpiece closing coda secretly honoring two roadies

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Show 529 – Outlaws & Bad Boys

  • The longest song to ever be a Top 10 hit
  • The longest guitar solo of any Top 10 single
  • Dirty 30s by Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden, and Megadeth
  • Rock Queen of the Week is Diamante
  • Rair Hair from Warrant
  • Cruel Crue Summer 1 Motley Crue hit, 1 deep cut or rarity
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hair From AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Bad Touch, Devil’s Train, Diamante, Disturbed, Drowning Pool, Gathering Of Kings, Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Kix, Megadeth, Mötley Crüe, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Pretty Boy Floyd, Psychostick, Shinedown, Sick n’ Beautiful, The Allman Brothers Band, The Cult, The Darkness, Troy Redfern, Tuff, Warrant, Whitesnake
  • That full “Metal Muppets” video discussed on the show:

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Show 528 – Blood in the Water

  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Accept, Ayron Jones, Bad Omens, Bourbon House, Category VI, Faster Pussycat, Great White, Guns N’ Roses, Heart, L.A. Guns, Lita Ford, Mother Love Bone, Mötley Crüe, Of Mice & Men, Ozzy Osbourne, Rhino Bucket, Salty Dog, Santa Cruz, Sea Hags, Shark Island, Tesla, The Warning, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Whitesnake
  • Trailblazing women, toothsome predators, unchained fury
  • Shark-infested riffs and ocean-sized chaos await
  • Who’s screaming? Who’s sinking? Who’s biting back?
  • Fired from KFC, destined for rock history
  • Canadian storm band unleashes modern metal bite
  • Dive into blood, betrayal, and bluesy hooks
  • New Bad Omens
  • Rare Ozzy
  • News about Mother Love Bone on the 35th anniversary of Apple
  • Safe for Work! Listen Now and Rock Your Office!

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Show 527 – Working Class Demon Hunter

  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Alter Bridge, As Lions, Babylon A.D., Cinderella, Def Leppard, Dokken, Fastway, Fury, Halestorm, Kansas, Kickstand Jenny, Kix, Lord Of The Lost & Within Temptation, Loverboy, Mötley Crüe, Pantera, Red Voodoo, Skid Row, Sleeze Beez, Stryper, The Far Worst, Thunder, Van Halen, Warrant, Wig Wam
  • A Triple-Shot of working-class Rock anthems to fuel your grind
  • The wild world of Netflix’s K-Pop Demon Hunters meets Metal–hear a shred version of its biggest hit!
  • New Halestorm, Babylon A.D., Fury, Lord of the Lost, The Far Worst, Kickstand Jenny, and more!
  • This show is so epic it’s Biblical!
  • NSFW May contain profanity, specifically in: Warrant – D.R.F.S.R.

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Metal in Movies: 10 Hard Rock or Metal Songs in Famous American Films

When a distorted guitar riff cuts through a movie theater’s sound system, something primal happens. The music doesn’t just accompany the action—it becomes part of the story’s DNA, turning ordinary scenes into unforgettable moments that stick with audiences decades later. American cinema has long understood metal’s unique power to amplify emotion, whether it’s channeling teenage rebellion, punctuating an epic battle sequence, or providing the perfect sonic backdrop for a character’s transformation. These aren’t just soundtrack placements; they’re cultural touchstones where Hollywood’s biggest moments collided with some of the heaviest music ever recorded. Read Now

Legends Forever: Artists with Metal Legacies That Will Never Die

The hard rock and heavy metal world has lost some of its most influential figures in recent years, leaving behind catalogs that continue to inspire new generations of metalheads. These artists may have left us, but their thunderous riffs, soaring vocals, and indomitable spirits live on through their music. Here are 10 hard rock and heavy metal legends whose legacies will never die. Read Now

Show 526 – Rock N’ Roll Fantasy

  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From 10 Years, AC/DC, Bad Company, Cassidy Paris, Cinderella, Crobot, Danzig, Degreed, Dorothy, Faster Pussycat, Finger Eleven, FireHouse, Fozzy, Hell In The Club, In This Moment, Kelly Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy, Rainbow, Ramonda, Revilo, Royale Lynn, Savatage, Skid Row, Skindred, Sleazy Money, Tesla, The Struts, W.A.S.P., Warrant
  • Fulfill your Rock N’ Roll fantasy on this week’s show!
  • New In This Moment, Degreed, Finger Eleven, Cassidy Paris, The Struts, Revilo, Hell in the Club, Sleazy Money, and more!
  • That Kelly Osbourne & Ozzy duet hits that hits so differently this week
  • Your kids know them as Trans-Siberian Orchestra, but we called them Savatage
  • NSFW: Profanity in WASP “Animal (F*ck Like a Beast)”

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Show 525 – Prince of Darkness: The Hard, Heavy & Hair Show’s Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne

  • 2 Hours of Ozzy and His Music
  • 25-Minute Live Concert Retrospective from 1975 to 2025
  • Ozzy’s Final Farewell Concert
  • Covers of Ozzy Songs
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Bad Wolves, Billy Morrison, Black Sabbath, Lita Ford, Motorhead, Mountain, Ozzy Osbourne, Pantera, Racer X, Reckless Love, Rob Zombie, Saxon, Sebastian Bach, Slash, The Muppets, Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens & Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony Iommi

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Show 524 – Believe

  • We’ll never be royals / skip the luxe / crank the volume / our crown’s made / from power chords!
  • What song has Mick Mars’ favorite guitar solo?
  • A Musical Tribute to Mick Mars
  • Rock Queen of the Week is Giorgia Colleluori of IT’sALIE
  • Proof that Rock Ain’t Dead!
  • NSFW May contain profanity, specifically in: 0:32:20, Metallica – Stone Cold Crazy, 0:40:44, Motley Crue – Primal Scream, Crashdiet – I Don’t Care
  • Hits & Deep Cuts from Baton Rouge, Cassidy Paris, Crashdïet, Dead Memory, Def Leppard, Falling in Reverse, Gen2, Godsmack, Great White, Guns N’ Roses, Heroes And Monsters, IT’sALIE, Kings Of Chaos, KISS, Lorde, Lÿnx, Metallica, Mötley Crüe, Pop Evil, Scorpions, Severed Angel, Skid Row, Turkish Delight, White Lion, Winger

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Show 523 – Lone Star Guitar

  • Texas rocks! A quartet of bands proves it
  • SIN’s music, lost since 1985, aired for the very first time in high-quality audio Pariah took straight from Dana Strum’s masters
  • Two 80s Metal bands simultaneously recorded the same song without knowing it. You decide who did it better—Ace Frehley or SIN?
  • 4 FROM: Time travel back to the best Hard Rock and Metal from the year Time travel back to the best Hard Rock and Metal from the year 1984 with Van Halen, Motley, Twisted Sister, and something you probably haven’t heard on the radio in a long time
  • Rock Queen of the Week is Casandra Carson of Casandra’s Crossing
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Ace Frehley, Casandra’s Crossing, Company Of Wolves, Crossbone Skully, Dangerous Toys, Device, Drowning Pool, Europe, GodSmack, Guns N’ Roses, Hellyeah, Kik Tracee, King’s X, Lita Ford, Pantera, SIN, SIN, Tak Matsumoto Group, The Plot In You, Twisted Sister, Van Halen, ZZ Top

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Show 522 – Summer Special

  • 2 hours of Feel Good, Beach-Ready, BBQ-Blasting, Made-for-the-Top Down, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, and Hair Glam
  • Safe for Work! Listen Now and Rock Your Office!
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Aldo Nova, Alice Cooper, Baton Rouge, Bon Jovi, Cheap Trick, David Lee Roth, Dirty Honey, Downplay, Electric Boys, Greta Van Fleet, Guns N’ Roses, Hardbone, KISS, Led Zeppelin, Lenny Kravitz, Loverboy, Poison, Robin McAuley, Sammy Hagar, Slaughter, Tesla, Theory of a Deadman, Thundermother, Van Halen, Volbeat, Warrant, Within Temptation, Y&T

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Show 521 – Greed is the Groove

  • Breaking the law: Pariah airs exciting new music illegally!
  • Philadelphia soul begets 80’s hair from the former-next-David Lee Roth
  • Queen gets Heavy, Epic, and Riffy!
  • New Riley’s L.A. Guns, Sandness, In/Vertigo, Rust N’ Rage, Eternal Idol, Electric Church, Nicklas Sonne, and Gone Savage
  • The Rock Queen of the Week is a pair of Italian sirens mixing opera with Metal
  • Hit the ATM and put cash down on this week’s Triple-Shot game
  • NSFW May contain profanity
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Aerosmith, Black n Blue, Bon Jovi, BulletBoys, Classless Act, Dokken, Electric Boys, Electric Church, Eternal Idol, Gone Savage, In/Vertigo, KISS, Leatherwolf, Motley Crue, My Darkest Days, Nicklas Sonne, Poison, Queen, Quiet Riot, Riley’s L.A. Guns, Robin McAuley, Rust N’ Rage, Sandness, Skid Row, The O’Jays, Van Halen, Warrant, ZZ Top

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Show 520 – More Cowbell

  • New Three Days Grace, Halestorm, Lansdowne, and Fury
  • A buried 80s cover surfaced almost 35 years later
  • When you’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more… of the Triple-Shot game
  • NSFW May contain profanity, specifically in: Devilstrip – Snakebite, Johnathan Davis – What It Is, Dominate – Three Days Grace
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Atreyu, Autograph, Bloody Hammers, Blue Öyster Cult, Deadset Society, Def Leppard, Devilstrip, Dokken, Fury, Godsmack, Grand Funk Railroad, Guns N’ Roses, Halestorm, Helix, Jonathan Davis, Lansdowne, Lucifer, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne, Scorpions, Shinedown, Steelheart, Three Days Grace, Warrant, Winger

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Show 519 – F.A.F.O.

  • F.A.F.O. – The show dedicated to anyone fighting a person, system, society, or personal demon
  • Guaranteed to pump you up and keep you in the fight!
  • Free access to the music-only, no-talk version of the show to pump you up for any fight in your life, any time you need to listen!
  • Filthy 40 of ass kicking Metal from 1984
  • Rock Queen of the Week is Lzzy Hale with a song that inspires fans to great things
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hair From Bonfire, Cinderella, Dokken, Dropkick Murphys, Edge of Forever, Egypt Central, Fastway, Halestorm, Kickin Valentina, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Mötley Crüe, Pantera, Queen, Rage Against the Machine, Scott Stapp, Sebastian Bach, Stone Horses, Striker, Survivor, Tesla, The End Machine, Thundermother, Twisted Sister, Udo Dirkschneider, Warrant

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Show 518 – Party Bus to Outer Space

  • The heaviest Aerosmith track ever!?
  • How a sugary pop song gave one of the original Heavy Metal bands their name
  • Bon Jovi turns 40! (Not kidding!)
  • YOUR favorite Grim Reaper song by overwhelming response!
  • A superhero musician covering a Classic Rock masterwork inspired by another superhero!
  • Bon Jovi’s first hit when it was just a cassette tape demo!
  • Rock Queen of the Week is Plush
  • Warrant vs. Warrant vs. Warrant
  • Holy Batman connections to the Cover Song of the Week!
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Ace Frehley, Aerosmith, Any Given Sin, Bad Wolves, Bon Jovi, Bon Jovi, Deep Purple, Godsmack, Grim Reaper, Judas Priest, Kingdom Come, Lynch Mob, Plush, Quiet Riot, Rainbow, Scorpions, Scott Stapp, Shanghai, Steel Panther, Steelheart, System of a Down, Twisted Sister, Warrant, Warrant, Warrant

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Show 517 – Bar Fights & Burnouts

  • What would Blue Murder have sounded like if Ray Gillen had stayed on as lead vocals?Wonder no more!
  • You had her poster on your wall, now you can see a lot more of her–a femme fatale rock singer becomes a real vixen on OnlyFans
  • Before Rachel Bolan and Snake Sabo, there was a very different Skid Row—-hear them on this episode
  • New Shiraz Lane, Massive Wagons, Mason Hill
  • NSFW May contain profanity, specifically in: Metallica – Stone Cold Crazy, Massive Wagons – F*ck the Haters
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Blue Murder, Bon Jovi, Disturbed, Dorothy, Elton John, Femme Fatale, Five Finger Death Punch, Great White, Judas Priest, KISS, Korn, Little Us, Lorraine Lewis, Lynch Mob, Mason Hill, Massive Wagons, Metallica, Mötley Crüe, Ray Gillen, Royal Bliss, Shiraz Lane, Skid Row, (the Other) Skid Row, Theory Of A Deadman, Thunder, Vixen, W.A.S.P.

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Show 515 – Rock of Ages

  • Music by The Monkees of Metal bands
  • A Cover Song of the Week the original songwriter likes better than the original song he recorded!
  • The scorching 1-minute, 42-second guitar intro radio doesn’t play any more
  • Appreciating drummer Roxy Petrucci of Vixen in the Rock Queen of the Week
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Angel, Bad Wolves, Breaking Benjamin, BulletBoys, Chez Kane, Damnocracy, Def Leppard, Disturbed, Drowning Pool, Europe, Ghost, Halestorm, Judas Priest, Killswitch Engage, KISS, Nine Inch Nails, Nita Strauss, Salty Dog, Shaman’s Harvest, Spın̈al Tap, Steel Dragon, The Dead Daisies, The Kinks, Van Halen, Velvet Revolver, Vixen, Whitesnake

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Show 514 – Electric Thunder

  • A unique Cover Song of the Week that isn’t a cover… but is… but isn’t… but…
  • John Sykes Triple-Shot Tribute
  • Rock Queen of the Week is Dorothy with help from Slash
  • Rare Hair from Babylon A.D., Giant, Whitesnake, Thunder, and more!
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Babylon A.D., Bad Wolves, Blue Murder, Crobot, Def Leppard, Dorothy, Faith No More, Five Finger Death Punch, Giant, Juliet’s Not Dead, KISS, Lynch Mob, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne, Papa Roach, Shinedown, Sixx-A.M., The Pretty Reckless, Theory of a Deadman, Thin Lizzy, Thunder, Whitesnake

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Show 513 – The Crazy Life

  • NSFW May contain profanity, specifically in: Guns N’ Roses “You’re Crazy” and “Crazy Life” by Slash
  • Crazy Hard Rock! Mad Metal! Lunatic Hairy Glam! This week’s show has it all on a runaway locomotive plummeting through the night without brakes!
  • New H.E.A.T., Ginger Evil, Cassidy Paris, Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth, and Guns N’ Roses
  • Grab your straightjacket for the Triple-Shot of Insanity
  • Guns N’ Roses + Bruce “the Boss” Springsteen = an Amazing “Come Together” Cover
  • The biggest hit ever written by “Big Songs, Big Life” superstar songwriter who took Ratt, Aerosmith, Joan Jett, KISS, and Alice Cooper to the top of the charts
  • The greatest Flamenco Sleaze Rock band ever!
  • Rock Queen of the Week is Casandra Carson (of Casandra’s Crossing and Paralandra)
  • New albums by Guns N’ Roses, Casandra’s Crossing, Gypsy Pistoleros, and H.E.A.T.
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Black Sabbath, Casandra Crossing, Cassidy Paris, Cinderella, Def Leppard, Drowning Pool, Ginger Evil, Guns N’ Roses, Guns N’ Roses, Gypsy Pistoleros, H.E.A.T, KISS, Mammoth, Megadeth, Metallica, Mötley Crüe, Nothing More, Ozzy Osbourne, Ricky Martin, Scorpions, Slash, Three Days Grace, Tora Tora, Volbeat, Warrant, Whitesnake

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Show 512 – Troopers

  • Safe for Work! Listen Now and Rock Your Office!
  • Heavy Metal instruments you probably can’t name
  • Triple-Shot of Badass Welsh Rockers (from Wales, UK, you geographically challenged degenerates)
  • 4 FROM: Time travel back to the best Hard Rock and Metal from the year Time travel back to the best Hard Rock and Metal from the year 1985
  • The debut of German Rock Queen of the Week whose band has never before appeared on Hard, Heavy & Hair
  • Rare Hare from Foxy Shazam, Black N’ Blue, Loverboy, Heart, Judas Priest, KISS, Stone Sour, and more!
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From All For Metal, Black ‘n Blue, BlackRain, Breaking Benjamin, Chez Kane, Dead Daisies, Foxy Shazam, Heart, Iron Maiden, John Sykes, Judas Priest, Kings Of Mercia, KISS, Manowar, Metallica, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons, Poison, Ratt, Scorpions, Seventh Crystal, Skindred, Stone Sour, The HU, Twisted Rose, Warlock

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Show 511 – Tongue\Twisted

  • NSFW May contain profanity, specifically in Korn – Freak On a Leash, L.A. Guns – Taste It, Gina and the Eastern Block – Sippin On a Forty
  • A mystery of love unrequited, inspired by blowing glass
  • New Sleeping Mountain, Annisokay, and REEBZ
  • A Butcher Baby turned Lord of Acid keeping her heart in Metal with her violent new project
  • Tongue twisters and the lyrics of cunning linquists on this high brow edition of Hard, Heavy & Hair
  • Send the kids to bed early. This week’s Hard, Heavy & Hair Show is only for Mom, Dad, and Dad’s mistress
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From AC/DC, Aerosmith, Annisokay, BulletBoys, Cinderella, David Lee Roth, Def Leppard, Gelatin Skelatin, Gina and The Eastern Block, Judas Priest, KISS, Korn, L.A. Guns, Mad Margritt, Maverick, Metallica, Mötley Crüe, REEBZ, Rick Springfield, Scott Stapp, Skid Row, Sleeping Mountain, Tak Matsumoto Group, The Cult, The Pretty Reckless, The Violent Hour, Warrant, Whitesnake

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Show 510 – Egg Man

  • NSFW May contain profanity, specifically in: Drowning Pool – Madness and Shiraz Lane – Bullshit
  • Drop a tab, spark a spliff, and jump down the rabbit hole with all your favorite Hard Rockers, Heavy Metalers, and the Hairiest of Glam Rockers on this week’s psychedelic Hard, Heavy & Hair Show!
  • New King Kraken, Drowning Pool, Laurenne/Louhimo, Inglorious, and Shiraz Lane
  • A Triple-Shot of trippy psychedelic mega-hits from the greatest 80s rock gods you wished you dropped acid with back then
  • Eat Me, Drink Me, and jump into the acid-soaked Cover Song of the Week mystery that spans the space-time continuum of the mind-expanded 60s to the hairiest of 90s sleaze rockers refusing to bow down to the queens of Grunge and their “off with their long-haired heads!” proclamations
  • Worships not one but two queens of rock in the brand new release by Battle Beast and Smackbound frontwomen teaming up to dominate the chess board and rock even the most anti-Metal Cheshire Cat of the pretend-queen’s army
  • Shinedown says ‘off with her head’ while rare Dokken takes us down the rabbit hole to the ‘Maddest Hatter’
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Avenged Sevenfold, Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Def Leppard, Dokken, Drowning Pool, Electric Boys, Enuff Z’nuff, Helix, Inglorious, Kharma, King Kraken, KISS, L.A. Guns, Laurenne-Louhimo, Love/Hate, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne, Poison, Ratt, Rev Theory, Shinedown, Shiraz Lane, Skillet, The Beatles, Twisted Sister

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Show 509 – 88 MPH

  • Chris Cornell’s posthumous No. 1 hit
  • 4 FROM: Time travel back to the best Hard Rock and Metal from the year Time travel back to the best Hard Rock and Metal from the year 1988
  • Joan Jett and Diamante argue musically about whether to love or hate yourself for hating loving him
  • Triple-Shot of Vinnie Appice pounding skins through the decades
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Alien, Bad Company, Black Sabbath, BulletBoys, Chris Cornell, Days Of Jupiter, Diamante, Dio, Europe, Girish And The Chronicles, Guns N’ Roses, Hurricane, Ice Nine Kills, Iron Maiden, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Joel Hoekstra’s 13, KISS, Kix, Ratt, Riot V, Rock Out, Sebastian Bach, Stryper, Tungsten

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Show 508 – Gone Bad

  • Explore the 7 Deadly Sins of Hard Rock and Metal
  • Medley of “Sympathy for the Devil” heavy covers from Ozzy, Motorhead, Jane’s Addiction, Widespread Panic, Guns N’ Roses, The King, and more!
  • What do Bon Jovi, Hinder, and Slipknot have in common? Find out in this week’s Triple-Shot
  • Rock Queen of the Week is Maria Brink (of In This Moment)
  • Hits, Deep Cuts, and Rare Hare From Black ‘n Blue, Bon Jovi, Devil’s Train, Devour the Day, Disturbed, Dorothy, Five Finger Death Punch, George Thorogood & The Destroyers, Gotthard, Gunshine, Halestorm, Hinder, In This Moment, Lynch Mob, Megadeth, Michael Jackson, Mötley Crüe, Motörhead, Nazareth, Pariah Burke, Ronnie Romero, Shaman’s Harvest, Skid Row, Slipknot, The HU, Tuff

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